Hi, everyone. Sorry I’m a little late with this update. There’s a fair amount in here so I want to start with a very high level summary so you can decide how much you want to read.

1. There will be a building-wide power outage that affects our data center in building 240 during the weekend of November 19-21. The current plan has all equipment in the data center being shut down at end of day on Friday, November 19th, and brought back online the morning of Monday, November 22nd.
2. New services: We have a Jenkins server in GCE, configured to run workflows on GCE compute resources. Also, we have a Globus Endpoint in GCE for transferring data into or out of GCE home directories and project directories.
3. Legacy compute resources will be retired or migrated into GCE by the end of this calendar year. By January, Legacy Linux shell access will be limited to the Legacy login nodes for the purposes of copying files into GCE. If you haven’t moved your workflows into GCE, it’s time to start.

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We’re overdue for a newsletter, and there’s a lot to cover, so I’m going to do this in two parts. Today’s will be short and sweet, since I’m going to focus on some staffing changes you need to be aware of. Tim Livolsi is going to be off on parental leave through October and a …

All, Maintenance on jira.cels.anl.gov is now finished. Please send an email to [email protected] if you have any issues. CELS Systems

All, Due to necessary maintenance, jira.cels.anl.gov will be taken down tomorrow (9/21) at 5PM CT. We anticipate the maintenance will take an hour to complete. Contact [email protected] for issues, and sorry for any inconvenience. CELS Systems

Please see the below announcement from ANL Cyber Security. The short story is make sure your iPhones, iPads, Macs, and other Apple devices are running the latest version ASAP. There are two exploits in the wild that can give an attacker control over your apple device with no interaction on your part. One is via …

All, Due to an urgently required security fix, both collab.cels.anl.gov and confluence.cels.anl.gov will be taken down at 5PM. We anticipate the maintenance will take two hours to complete. Contact [email protected] for issues, and sorry for any inconvenience. CELS Systems

By this point, if anything in GCE or Legacy environments is not working, that’s an outlier that should be reported. Some desktops did not come back cleanly, if yours is in that state and you’re not able to reboot it, please send a ticket to [email protected] and we’ll take care of it. Note: This announcement …

Due to the construction in the data center related to the Aurora project, the power to building 240 (including the data center) will be interrupted for most of the day on Monday, July 19. For CELS Computing, this will affect the various computing clusters in the room (you should get a separate communication on those), …

The migration has been completed at this time. – brad

We believe we have figured out the issue with the failed xgitlab migration from a couple of weeks ago and are going to do it again this weekend. We’ve got checks in place to detect if the same thing happens again, though we don’t suspect this will happen. xgitlab.cels.anl.gov will be unavailable from noon CDT …